In adult court, the charge is a third-degree felony punishable by a maximum five years in prison.

The boy was arrested Feb. 26 after a student found a note in a boys' bathroom stating a bomb would go off at the school. The building was evacuated and searched by a bomb-sniffing K9 dog, but no explosives were found.

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He is scheduled to be sentenced June 18 by Judge Karen Lawson. The boy has been released to his mother pending his sentencing.

That was the second such recent incident at a Mentor school.

On Feb. 19, a similar threat was written on a bathroom wall at Memorial Middle School. A 12-year-old girl confessed to making the threat and has been charged with inducing panic.